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Iran: Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-07-01 | Author:Michael Axworthy

At length Nader realised that the Ottomans were not going to accept his peace proposals, and learned that new Ottoman armies were advancing toward his frontiers. His son Nasrollah defeated ...
( Category: Iran July 2,2014 )
Sailing From Byzantium by Colin Wells
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Colin Wells [Wells, Colin]

The biggest problem the translators faced was generally not the difficulty of the Greek itself but the scarcity of good, accurate Greek manuscripts. Perhaps this helped give rise to the ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture July 2,2014 )
Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]

Broch believed that his theory of the earthly absolute could be applied directly to politics, and in the two chapters of the “condensed” Mass Psychology he actually, though fragmentary, did ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality July 1,2014 )
Lying About Hitler by Evans Richard
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Evans, Richard [RICHARD J. EVANS]

On 19 January 1965, after six weeks of frantic marketing, Irving finally received a letter from Max Funfack. The East German doctor wondered in a puzzled tone: Why I should ...
( Category: England July 1,2014 )
The Rise and Fall of Communism by Brown Archie
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Brown, Archie [Brown, Archie]

To the more intelligent boys and girls, it was hard to understand that, in the history of other nations, it was possible and permitted to pay homage even to tsars ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism June 27,2014 )
The Crusades by Christopher Tyerman
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Christopher Tyerman [Tyerman, Christopher]

Jihad, a pillar of the Muslim faith, means “struggle.” The greater jihad is the internal or personal struggle, and the lesser jihad is the struggle in the believer’s daily activity. ...
( Category: Christianity June 25,2014 )
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Amin Maalouf

9 The Rush for the Nile ÝMy uncle ShÐrkÙh turned to me and said, “YÙsuf, pack your things, we’re going.” When I heard this order, I felt as if my ...
( Category: Islam June 25,2014 )
The Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Thomas F. Madden [Madden, Thomas F.]

Illustration 1. Peter the Hermit leading the First Crusade. Miniature from Egerton Manuscript 1500, f. 45v. © De Agostini/The British Library Board. Illustration 2. Templar riding into battle. Fresco from ...
( Category: General June 25,2014 )
The Dream and the Tomb by Robert Payne
epub |eng | 2000-06-24 | Author:Robert Payne

Three Letters EXCERPTS FROM A LETTER FROM TERENCE, MASTER OF THE TEMPLE, TO ALL COMMANDERS AND BRETHREN OF THE ORDER, FROM TYRE, NOVEMBER 1187 BROTHER TERENCE, known as Grand Master ...
( Category: General June 25,2014 )
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by Nash George H
epub |eng | | Author:Nash, George H.

Were it not for the wounds that Lincoln inflicted on the Constitution, it would have been infinitely more difficult for Franklin Roosevelt to carry through his revolution, for the coercive ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism June 24,2014 )
Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi
mobi |eng | 2012-06-27 | Author:Alison Pargeter

CHAPTER 7 The Chimera of Reform Qaddafi was faced with a dilemma. Libya was deep in crisis and the Colonel desperately needed a way out. Everywhere he looked, the pressures ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State June 23,2014 )
Stuff Matters : Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-made World (9780544237049) by Miodownik Mark
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Miodownik, Mark

BILL There’s a man I have business with in New York, but I’ll be back as soon as it’s taken care of. MARY LOUISE (Laughs) So it’s true! Well, if ...
( Category: Inorganic June 23,2014 )
The Admiral and the Ambassador by Scott Martelle
epub |eng | 2014-06-22 | Author:Scott Martelle

The search began in earnest in late June 1899, with a series of letters and inquiries to various French political figures and bureaucrats. Vignaud, a voracious reader of the Parisian ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 23,2014 )
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik
epub |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Mark Miodownik [Miodownik, Mark]

BILL There’s a man I have business with in New York, but I’ll be back as soon as it’s taken care of. MARY LOUISE (Laughs) So it’s true! Well, if ...
( Category: Materials & Material Science June 23,2014 )
A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows by Gabaldon Diana
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Gabaldon, Diana [Gabaldon, Diana]

London, two years later She’d been home from her work no more than five minutes. Just time to meet Roger’s mad charge across the floor, shrieking ‘MUMMY!,’ she pretending to ...
( Category: War & Military June 23,2014 )

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